I love fall for those reasons too… There’s just something about a great jacket and a coordinating scarf. 🙂

Yes, G does pick out her own clothes. I wrote a little bit about our ‘clothes picking process’ in this post – http://mamapapabubba.com/2012/06/10/small-style-4/. I’m not sure if I remember exactly when she started picking out her own clothes, but I’d say around 18 months if I remember correctly? Now she picks out her own clothes, puts them on on her own (sometimes she still needs a bit of help with tricky shirts and buttons), and then takes them off at the end of the day too. 🙂

Hahaha – Grae had a gumboot phase too! Luckily she’s easy to reason with and when we tell her that gumboots are for rainy days, she happily chooses something else. Her silver sparkly shoes, however, are a different story! 🙂